Pentagram
Recent articles about Pentagram
Design odyssey
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Traces of a drifter
Issue 93, Winter 2017
Camera in hand, Harry Pearce dives into the urban underbelly in search of the unfathomable. Photo…
The book of Michael
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Automonography
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Dance on the spot
Issue 89, Winter 2014
Abbott Miller’s iPad contemporary dance apps for the 2wice Arts Foundation – a dynamic coming…
Design history disciplined
Issue 85, Spring 2013
The rules of the game
Issue 58, Winter 2005
For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with…
Head Trip
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure
Shouting from the shelves
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
Trust in Modernism
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
The John Lewis Partnership’s co-operative ethos has informed 50 years of corporate identity.
Reputations: Peter Saville
Issue 17, Summer 1995
‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised…
Reputations: Michael Bierut
Issue 24, Spring 1997
‘The biggest challenge that faces a designer isn’t the quest for novelty, but coming to grips with…
Reputations: J. Abbott Miller
Issue 45, Autumn 2002
'We could be more aware of the civility of design, of how it can be constructive in a poetic sense…
Self-control. self-raising
Issue 38, Winter 2000
Pentagram are ‘time-rich’. Browns are the young establishment.
Naked words
Issue 82, Winter 2012
Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the…
Controlled passion: the art of Fernando Gutiérrez
Issue 36, Summer 2000
In post-Franco Spain, a cool Catalan breeze blows through the often humid, overheated world of…
Changing of the guard
Issue 8, Autumn 1993
American graphic design is divided. The once rebellious avant-garde has become the status quo…
I don’t use a Mac but I know a man who can
Issue 13, Summer 1994
British design has split down the middle. Should its priority be art or analysis, and is the…
Recent blog posts by Pentagram
Type Tuesday: Show and tell
27 February 2020
(Dance) Noted #93
19 June 2019
Graphic days out
10 October 2018
Noted #79
6 January 2017
Offset Sheffield 2016: day one
7 November 2016
Type on the campaign trail
30 October 2016
What design didn’t do
30 June 2016
Books received #18
11 April 2016
Books received #12
19 December 2014
Books received #8
7 May 2014
Letterpress firecracker in Tribeca
7 May 2013
Offset 2013: day one
9 April 2013
Type in Wapping
13 November 2012
Every which way
9 July 2012